Rollins takes two from Lady 'Canes

Mar 08, 2010

The Georgia Southwestern softball team lost both games of a
Monday afternoon doubleheader (3-0, 13-4) against Rollins College
at Lady ‘Canes Field.

Megan Wilkinson finished the day 2-for-4 with a triple, RBI and
run scored to lead Southwestern at the plate. Gabby Buck was the
only GSW hitter to pick up a hit in both games as she went 2-for-6
with a run scored and a RBI in the doubleheader.

GAME 1: ROLLINS 3, GSW 0

GSW starting pitcher Mariko Nomura retired 10 of the first 11
Rollins batters she faced in the afternoon's opening game. However,
it was hitters 12, 13 and 14 that decided the contest.

With one out in the fourth inning, Rollins reeled off
back-to-back singles and then a base-clearing double to go on top
2-0. That would prove to be all the runs RC pitcher Kirsten Frame
would need.

Frame (10-1) through a complete-game shutout, scattering three
hits while striking out 13.

Rollins added an insurance run in the top of the seventh.

Nomura (4-8) pitched into the seventh inning for the Lady
Hurricanes, allowed the three runs, struck out two and walked one.

GAME 2: ROLLINS 13, GSW 4 (5 inn.)

After scoring three runs in the first inning, the visiting Tars
put the game away in the third with a seven-run frame.

Southwestern surrendered only three hits in the third inning,
but the dagger came in the form of a grand slam from game 2 starter
Christine Roser.

Rollins scored their final three runs in the top of the fifth
before the Lady Hurricanes pushed four runs across in the bottom
half of the inning.

Wilkinson was the only GSW batter to have a multi-hit game as
she went 2-for-3 in the nightcap, highlighted by the fifth inning
RBI triple to right center.

Jessica Martin (2-7) took the loss for GSW after giving up the
three runs in the first inning. Tiffany Milstid (2.1 innings),
Kimberlee Tolbert (0.1 innings) and Katie Mueller (2.1 innings)
also made appearances for Southwestern.

Roser tossed two innings of scoreless ball for Rollins (13-1)
before giving way to Samantha Poarch (2-0). Poarch surrendered five
hits, struck out two and walked two.

The Lady Hurricanes, who have played eight games in four days,
travel to Anderson (S.C.) tomorrow (3/9) for a doubleheader
starting at 3 p.m.